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The loop represents every block, turtle, cloud, and power-up in the level (except for when you go underground in the pipes, that's outside of regular space-time).

I used an image of the whole map and used it as a texture for a plane inside Maya. Then I twisted the plane 180 degrees on the long axis, and bent it around its vertical axis by a factor of 3.1416, that made it into a mobius strip. I color-separated the image in Photoshop and made the sky black, the bricks white, and the in-between shapes in shades of gray, and used that to displace the plane geometry. It was a very heavy file because of this, 100Mb for a simple loop, since there are millions of displaced polygons. Then I uploaded my file to Shapeways, and they 3d-printed it in full-color, with a crazy high resolution.

What do you guys think?





]]> joabaldwin 2012-09-18T16:27:15-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54224&th=10890#msg_54224
How did the FCS material turn out? Are you pleased with the color results?]]> TurtlesAreCool 2012-09-18T16:32:28-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54226&th=10890#msg_54226 joabaldwin 2012-09-18T16:49:18-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54227&th=10890#msg_54227 Youknowwho4eva 2012-09-18T16:55:16-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54229&th=10890#msg_54229
LOVE IT! Very clever]]> natalia 2012-09-18T18:46:03-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54246&th=10890#msg_54246
Thanks by the way for the tutorial, it made for an interesting read .]]> cedricms 2012-09-19T12:58:40-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54257&th=10890#msg_54257 Crissy 2012-09-19T19:07:18-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=54376&th=10890#msg_54376 pdb 2012-09-22T07:07:10-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=55579&th=10890#msg_55579
How large is each individual block and how far out do they stick from the background? I'm trying to figure out how much non-text detail will show up with FCS.

Cheers.]]> BHuey 2012-10-18T15:46:43-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=55580&th=10890#msg_55580 joabaldwin 2012-10-18T15:59:48-00:00